When I saw him he did not know me.- Anna Sims, mother of September 11th survivor George Sims, discovered in a New York hospital nearly a year after he was believed dead.
I didn't feel I could do the job with the commitment with which I have done it in the past five years.
- Labour leader Ruairí Quinn announces he is to step down.
Too confusing and complex.
- Minister for Transport, Seamus Brennan, on Dublin City Council's new route maps for Dublin.
It was an innocent use. We didn't know it was from anyone else's artwork.
- A researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is being sued for stealing a design for experimental military armour from a comic book.
It looked like the entire nation was high on drugs.
- Yugoslav Health Secretary, Milos Knezevic, announces a crackdown on over-the-counter sales of stress-reducing pharmaceuticals, use of which has spiralled over a decade of ethnic conflict.
The time had come to develop a new approach to meeting the needs of our emigrants, particularly the most vulnerable.
- Minister for Foreign Affairs, Brian Cowen, as a Government report recommends increased funding for emigrant services.
It is a bit like a general election. At first only a few people come in the door, but soon it swells and hundreds are coming in the door.
- Martin Black, manager of Eason's, after soccer player Roy Keane's controversial autobiography goes on sale.
We're finding out that these drug companies are very clever and are getting people to hype their drugs or hype their procedures.
- CBS news executive Marcy McGinnis, as US networks clamp down on celebrities endorsing drugs during TV confessionals.
The fact is I'm gay and that's the only thing that counts for the studio bosses.
- Aspirant James Bond star Rupert Everett on why he'll never don 007's tuxedo.
When there are killings of Palestinian civilians, Israel can expect killings of its civilians.
- Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar after Israeli tank fire kills four members of a Palestinian family in Gaza.
We are not scared any more by American bombs. If they start bombing, let them do so.
- A Baghdad shopkeeper on US threats to attack Iraq.
An outrageous misuse of the Holocaust.
- Anti-Semitism campaigner Shimon Samuels as sportswear company Puma unveils a new shoe called the Zyklon, the same name as the Nazi nerve gas used to kill millions of Jews.
Fit and well, and poised to strike again at its leisure.
- A UN report's assessment of al-Qaeda, the terrorist group held responsible for the September 11th attacks in New York and Washington.